The velveteen daughter
Subtitle: a novel
By: Laurel Davis Huber
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781631521928
Subjects: Mental Depression; Mothers and daughters; Women artists; Women authors; Fiction
Description: The story of Margery Williams Bianco, author of the beloved children's book The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother. The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries, including Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica, provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story.
Notes: Includes discussion questions.

Includes endnotes regarding the authenticity of the story, pages 381-384.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-393).